The online diary of the Right Reverend Daniel Martins, Bishop of Springfield (Episcopal Church)

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Confession of St Peter

Customary treadmill workout at home, first thing. Task planning over breakfast. Short form MP in the car.

Listened to three voicemail messages--one on my cell, and two on the office landline, which is a comparative rarity--and left voicemail replies on all three. Telephone tag.

Debriefed with the Archdeacon and the Administrator on some things.

Got to work refining the text of my sermon for this Sunday evening at a Choral Evensong in Houston.

Took a scheduled phone call with one of our clergy.

Attended Mass for the feast day.

Kept a physical therapy appointment (my back).

Very late lunch at home. Leftovers.

Finished the work I started in the morning on the Ecumenical Evensong sermon.

Took a substantive and long phone call from a priest outside the diocese seeking pastoral care. This ran so late that Evening Prayer fell through the cracks, as was on a hard deadline to be home by 6:00.

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About Me

I am the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in the Episcopal Church. The diocese includes 60 of the 102 counties in Illinois, and stretches from Rantoul in the northeast to the St Louis suburbs in the southwest and the old river town of Cairo in the extreme south. There are 35 worshiping communities that vary widely in size and character. This blog is intended primarily as a record of my daily activities as bishop, and is meant primarily for "internal consumption," though anyone is welcome to stop in and look around. For more substantive reflections, see my personal blog, Confessions of a Carioca, or Covenant, the blog of the Living Church Foundation.